Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was released from Guantánamo Bay in 2016 after 14 years in detention without charge, has been refused a passport to leave Mauritania
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of an internationally bestselling memoir that detailed the torture he endured as a detainee in Guantánamo Bay, says he has been denied a passport by Mauritania, the country of his birth, three years after he was released from the US detention centre.
The writer is petitioning Mauritania’s minister of the interior, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, over the denial of a passport. He had been told by the government he would be eligible to travel again two years after being released from Guantánamo. Slahi is supported by almost 200 writers, editors, publishers, teachers and human-rights advocates, who have written to Ould-Abdallah describing the rejection as “extrajudicial punishment of a man who has never engaged in terrorism nor ever been charged with or convicted of a crime”.
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